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Let's keep the conversation going on europe's election results and what they mean. we will also talk about president trump's state visit to britain to see the queen. his trip starts monday. joining me now from the other side of the pond are in london ann applebaum, pulitzer-prize winning historian and foreign affairs columnist for the "washington post." and in paris, author and philosoph philosopher, criss-crossing the continent in recent weeks performing a play and pressing for a centrist vision of europe. and in milan, writer for italy's paper and "the new york times." ann, let me start with...

Sarvini will fall in line. >> fascinating conversation. and ann made the point that the populists have few ideas, the great idea of the italian populist salvini is he wants italy to have bigger budget deficits deficits deficits. don't go away. next on "gps," the president goes to the palace, buckingham palace that is. we will preview the state visit and the state of british politics. every day, visionaries are creating the future. ♪ so, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work. ♪ the united states postal service makes more e-commerce deliveries to homes than an...

♪ (buzzer) ♪ olly. applebaum, and our guests. is it the conventional wisdom that boris johnson will be the next prime minister of britain, and he will take britain into a hard brexit? that is essentially, you know, complete severing of ties with europe. >> it's certainly not what the british want. we had a weird european election here in london last weekend where -- whereby the traditional

The most profound and lasting legacy of this decade. britain, famous for its prudence, propriety, and punctuality, is suddenly looking like a banana republic as it makes reckless decisions, misrepresents reality, and now wants to change its own self-imposed deadline. >> as written in "the political quarterly," brexit has always been a solution in search of a problem. brexists want to leave the eu but in every other community, ero skeptics see the eu as a free market juggernaut, that's why they don't like it. all those other countries, 27 countries, have it backwards, or britain's conservative ...

Legacy of this decade. britain, famous for its prudence, propriety, and punctuality, is suddenly looking like a banana republic as it makes reckless decisions, misrepresents reality, and now wants to change its own self-imposed deadline. as "the british quarterly" writes, brexit has always been a solution in search of a problem. brexists want to leave the eu but euroskeptics see the eu as a free market juggernaut, that's why they don't like it. all those other countries, 27 countries, have it backwards, or britain's conservative party has gone nuts. when i asked ann applebaum last week how his...